Agelbert NOTE: The average date for the first frost in Vermont used to be September 15. Our first frost this year came
over 45 days later. As you can see, the lack of snow threatens Ski Resorts, who all wish to open for Thanksgiving, but cannot due to the high temperatures, despite being able to make some snow during the night.
The Hydrocarbon Mafia WILL NOT pony up a PENNY to make up for ski resort/tourist income LOSSES. That said, this is just one of several deleterious effects, among the somewhat milder impacts of Catastrophic Climate Change, as is being experienced in Vermont. The longer warm season has helped the insects that kill maple trees to thrive.
On top of that potential disaster for Vermont Maple Syrup production, the Spring is giving less temperature swings (above and below freezing each day) that are
sine qua non to get the Maple Tree sap to run so it can be harvested. Maple Syrup producers took a major hit this spring because the number of days they could collect sap was less than HALF the normal amount. Again the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn will NOT do ZIP to stop their polllution or compensate Vermonters for the bankrupting loss of income OR the destruction of the Maple Trees in our rapidly warming forests by wood borer beetles.
The "Business as Usual", "Might equals Right", morally bankrupt, 👿 Social Darwinist ideology/RELIGION of the 🦖 Hydrocabon Worshipping Polluters will destroy human civilization, and much of the biosphere, if it is not completely rejected by people of good will all over the world.
"... It is astonishing to discover that major political efforts in democracies can be turned to undermining the core purpose of government, destroying the factual basis for fair and effective protection of essential common property resources of all to feed the financial interests of a few. These efforts, limiting scientific research on environment, denying the validity of settled facts and natural laws, are a shameful dance, far below acceptable or reputable political behavior. It can be treated not as a reasoned alternative, but scorned for what it is – simple thievery." —George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center founder
"We do not need a 'new' business model for energy
because we never had one. What we need, if we wish to avoid extinction, is to plug the
environmental and equity costs of energy production and use into our planning and thinking. " --
A.G. Gelbert
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